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David Weinberg, Stephen Barnes, Jerbrina Johnson, Cade Parian, & Emily Rowell

Cade Parian w/ The Parian Law Firm, LLC.

When you call Cade Parian, you understand what it means to “Call Cade, Get Paid.”  He is not a traditional attorney, and his law firm, The Parian Law Firm, LLC, is not the traditional law firm. His approach is personal and compassionate as if you are a member of his extended family.  He has fought for individuals across America to get results they deserve in personal injury litigation, workers compensation, and consumer debt collection defense.

Cade actively participates in causes that further individual growth.  He coached youth football in his community each year, not to relive the his glory years past, but to become a role model to the children who lack such. Cade’s desire to help others build better lives can be found all over his community.

Cade has been named a Georgia rising star by Atlanta Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine, and in 2014, The National Trial Lawyers and “The Fulton County Daily Report” both honored Cade as a “Top 40 Under 40” Lawyer.

Cade’s home base is Carrollton where he and his wife raise their two young children. While not preparing for trial or chasing children, Cade enjoys all things motorsports (except driving the things), and being the worst golfer on any golf course at any time.

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Jerbrina L Johnson w/ JL Johnson & Associates, LLC.

Jerbrina L. Johnson is an attorney representing clients throughout metropolitan Atlanta since 2006.  She has been named one of Georgia’s Rising Stars by SuperLawyers magazine.

Jerbrina earned a Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in Political Science with a concentration in Legal Studies from Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi and a Juris Doctorate from The University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi.

Prior to her actual graduation from law school, Jerbrina moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in the fall of 2004 to intern with the Georgia Innocence Project, assisting wrongfully convicted inmates with release based on DNA evidence that was not available at the time of their convictions.   Jerbrina began the law practice of J. L. Johnson & Associates, LLC in the fall of 2006 and has continued as Founder and Managing Partner for the past seven years. Her law firm focuses in the areas of family law, including divorce, legal separation, child support, custody, visitation, contempt, modification and establishment, contract preparation, review and negotiation, consumer bankruptcy and social security disability.  She also serves as a Guardian Ad Litem, representing the best interest of minor children in custody cases.

Jerbrina is a member of the Georgia Bar Association and is licensed in the state of Georgia to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Court of Appeals for the State of Georgia, Supreme Court of the State of Georgia and all local and Superior Courts of the State of Georgia.   She is also a member of the American Bar Association.

In the way of volunteerism, Jerbrina serves as an Executive Board Member of the State Bar of Georgia Military/VA Accreditation Committee, and a member of the Metro Atlanta Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Group. She is past Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America Friends of Scouting and past Board Member of the Beulah Urban Outreach executive committee. Jerbrina frequently judges national and local mock trial and moot court competitions, and also participates in career day at numerous metropolitan Atlanta elementary and middle schools. Jerbrina has been a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 14 years, and is the proud owner of her Maltipoo, Skyler.

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Stephen N Barnes w/ Barnes+Law™

Barnes+Law™ is a boutique business law firm delivering high-quality legal services for entrepreneurs, business owners and their families throughout the southeastern United States. With a focus on affluent families, growing businesses and dynamic entrepreneurial clients, we know what drives prosperous people. Even more importantly, we recognize our clients’ deeper priorities and we help shape their expectations. As professionals, we live in the details. But we also see the big picture. Three words encapsulate our vision — Trust. Innovaton. Peace.®

Stephen is the owner and founder of the firm. After graduating with honors from Vanderbilt University in 1994, Stephen worked with the Mississippi Center for Public Policy in Jackson, Mississippi as a Research Director, assisting legislators with research on a variety of issues affecting the families of Mississippi.  This work, along with a passion for knowing the purpose of Law, spurred Stephen to consider law school seriously.
He attended the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia, and graduated in 1998. After graduating, he married his wife Christian and they moved to Macon, Georgia where Stephen practiced at two larger firms in the areas of business and corporate law. In March of 2003, Stephen began this firm, with the desire to service businesses and families in a way unsurpassed in integrity and professionalism.

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Emily Rowell (Host), Matthew Rosenkoff, C.R. Wright, Loretta Lepore, Rich Casanova

C.R. Wright/Fisher & Phillips LLP

C.R. Wright is a partner in the Atlanta Office of Fisher & Phillips LLP. C.R.’s practice includes advising clients on general labor and employment issues, handling employment-related litigation, and presenting training seminars for managers and supervisors. He also handles OSHA inspections, affirmative action audits, charges of discrimination, and wage and hour investigations. C.R. is “AV” Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine.

Prior to joining the firm, C.R. worked in Human Resources for Lockheed Corporation, and as also a Cobb County Police Sergeant. He served as editor-in-cheif of the Georgia State Law Review.

Specialties: Labor & Employment Law, OSHA, OFCCP, EEOC, Noncompete and Trade Secrets, Employee Terminations, Human Resources advice.

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Matthew Rosenkoff/Taylor English Duma, LLP

Matthew Rosenkoff is a member of Taylor English’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Employment, Labor and Immigration, and Data Security and Privacy practice groups. Mr. Rosenkoff’s practice extends to all phases of commercial litigation. Specifically, Mr. Rosenkoff’s experience includes representing individuals, companies, and condominium/homeowners associations in litigation matters concerning, for example, contractual disputes; business torts; labor and employment issues; real estate disputes; and resort and hospitality disputes. Mr. Rosenkoff also represents those who are the subject of complaints and claims under various consumer protection statutes, including, but not limited to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Georgia Fair Business Practices Act, and Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act. Mr. Rosenkoff is licensed to practice law in Georgia as well as in Florida. Mr. Rosenkoff has experience practicing in federal courts in both Georgia and Florida, before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in appellate courts, and in American Arbitration Association proceedings.

Mr. Rosenkoff has been selected as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2012, 2013 and 2014. Mr. Rosenkoff has also served as a director on the Board of Directors for the North Fulton Bar Association since 2012.

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Loretta Lepore/MediaBar

Loretta Lepore is the founder of strategic communications firm, Lepore Associates, LLC and is a principal in MediaBar Services, a media coaching and presentation training consultancy.

Loretta’s career spans more than two decades as a journalist and network news anchor, gubernatorial spokeswoman and consultant to corporate, entrepreneurial and non-profit clients.  She has managed a diverse client portfolio with interests ranging from healthcare to technology to transportation.  Loretta has leveraged her expertise in public strategy, crisis & issues management as well as message development, media relations, interview coaching and presentation training to help her clients achieve their business goals.

During her tenure with the national law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, she designed and executed communications and crisis management strategies on behalf of lawyers, lobbyists and their clients.  Appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue, Loretta led Georgia’s effort to re-energize its brand and she managed the subsequent launch of the nationally acclaimed Georgia logo, website, and global commerce and tourism advertising campaigns.  While serving as the Governor’s press secretary, she was the administration’s primary spokesperson and the chief communications liaison with the White House planning team for the G8 Summit, which drew thousands of global journalists to Sea Island.  A former journalist herself, Loretta worked for CNN, NPR, Westwood Radio Networks as well as local stations in Washington, D.C. and Florida.

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John Camp, Terina Williams, Benin Brown, Shaun Southworth, & Emily Rowell (Host)

Shaun Southworth/Southworth P.C.

Mr. Southworth is a graduate of the Duke University School of Law, where at graduation he received the “Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Labor and Employment Law,” an award not given every year. He was also named the Neill James Blue Scholar. After Duke, Mr. Southworth was a labor and employment associate at an “AmLaw 100″ law firm, a distinction reserved for America’s largest law firms. As an employment attorney, he represented employers from small business to Fortune 500 companies. Before founding Southworth PC, Mr. Southworth was also a labor and employment attorney at another national law firm, and the senior attorney at one of America’s premier employment and federal practice boutiques,where he represented employees and former employees against entities ranging from Fortune 500 companies, to large governmental agencies. He also supervised other employment attorneys and designed the litigation strategies for numerous employment cases.

As an employment attorney, Mr. Southworth has represented clients in almost all areas of employment law, including sexual harassment and discrimination claims, racial harassment and discrimination claims, age harassment and discrimination claims, disability harassment and discrimination claims, medical leave interference and retaliation claims, wage and hour individual and class actions, and breach of employment agreement and fraud claims, among others. He has litigated claims before federal and state courts, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, before arbitration panels, before the EEOC’s administrative judges in hearings and otherwise, before the Merit Systems Protection Board, and before the United States Office of Personnel Management. He has litigated claims as an employment attorney against large companies, and numerous federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Labor, the United States Postal Service, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Department of Justice. He has represented clients residing in over ten different states nationwide, and uses pro hac and co-counsel relationships as appropriate.

Before matriculating at Duke, Mr. Southworth was a middle school English teacher as part of the Teach for America program. Mr. Southworth is also an honors graduate of Grinnell College.

Mr. Southworth is committed to his clients.

Jurisdictions:

• Missouri
• Kansas
• Georgia
• U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri
• U.S. District Court District of Kansas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri Bankruptcy
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia Bankruptcy
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Admitted To The Bar:

• Georgia – 2012
• Missouri – 2009

Education:

• Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, Juris Doctorate, 2009
  • Honors: Faculty Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law
  • Honors: Neill James Blue Scholar
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Bachelors’ Degree with Honors, 2004
• Honors: Trustee Honor Scholar
• Honors: Humanities Scholar

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• State Bar of Georgia
• State Bar of Missouri
• State Bar of Kansas
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• Former Middle School English teacher as Part of the “Teach for America” Program

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Terina Williams/Southworth P.C.

Terina M. Williams is an Associate Attorney at Southworth PC.  Ms. Williams represents employees and former employees in all areas of employment law, including but not limited to racial harassment and discrimination, sexual harassment and discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour disputes.

Ms. Williams is an alumnus of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she received the highest grade in multiple courses and received the “Best Brief” award in Moot Court.  Upon completing her law degree, Ms. Williams obtained her LL.M. in Taxation from Golden Gate University, School of Law where she graduated with honors.

Prior to joining Southworth PC, Ms. Williams was an associate attorney at a well-respected employment and civil rights litigation firm in California.  Ms. Williams is committed to her work as an employment attorney and looks forward to working with you on your employment related needs.

Areas of Practice:

• Labor and Employment
• Bankruptcy
• Taxation

Jurisdictions:

• California
• Georgia
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of California

Bar Admissions:

• State Bar of California, December 2009
• State Bar of Georgia, January 2014

Education:

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Juris Doctorate, May 2009
• Golden Gate University, School of Law, Master of Laws, Taxation, December 2010
• University of California, Irvine, Bachelor’s Degree, Criminology, Law & Society, June 2005.

William John Camp/Westmoreland, Patterson, Moseley & Hinson, LLP

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Benin Brown/Brown Web Copy

Benin Brown is one of the few people that you will meet in Atlanta that was actually born and raised here. Mr. Brown is a Digital Media Specialist at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. His background includes extensive search engine optimization experience both in an in-house marketing setting and the agency environment. Prior to becoming a creative content writer, Benin worked as an SEO analyst for an Atlanta based marketing agency that specialized in providing lawyer marketing services.

“Moreover, as a published book author and content writer, my writing experience qualifies me to write on a variety of topics. If you were to select me as a content writer, here’s what you could expect:

* Content that is engaging, unique and well researched
* SEO know-how that results in content that helps you rank for even the toughest of keywords
* Content that is compliant with Google’s Penguin and Panda algorithms
* Writing that is optimized for search AND primed for maximum conversions”

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Douglas Chanco, Joshua Schiffer, Charlotte Merritt, & Emily Rowell (Host)

Joshua G. Schiffer

Joshua G. Schiffer was raised in the wilds of East Cobb County by Dr. Daniel and Prof. Gail Schiffer.  He attended Rocky Mountain Elementary, Mabry and Simpson Middle Schools, and graduated from The Walker School in 1994. He graduated from Clark University in Worcester, MA where he majored in Government/International Relations with a minor in International Development. Mr. Schiffer studied Economics in Luxembourg and traveled extensively.  After working as a truck driver and warehouse worker during and after college, Mr. Schiffer continued his education and obtained his Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law in 2002.  While in law school, Mr. Schiffer was active in Mock Trial, Student Trial Lawyers Association and a variety of social/professional groups.

Mr. Schiffer began his career as a clerk in the Superior Court of Cobb County, transitioned into real estate and eventually gravitated towards trial work as a senior trial attorney for the Metro Conflict Defender and Georgia Public Defender Standards Counsel.  During this period, Mr. Schiffer trained numerous attorneys in complex trial techniques and was the senior trial attorney for several judges.  He has supervised the All Purpose/Fast Track Courts, Magistrate Courts and General Trial Courts.

In 2007,  Mr. Schiffer was invited to the exclusive Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Duboise, WY where he spent the summer working with a class of 50 Plaintiffs and Criminal Defense Lawyers on Advanced Trial Techniques including Sociometry, Psychodrama, Experiential Therapy and Group Dynamics with an internationally acclaimed faculty including Gerry Spence, Joane Garcia-Colston, Fredilyn Sison, Rafe Foreman, Joshua Karton, Betsy Greene, and Maren Chaloupka.  Mr. Schiffer continues to attend college events on a regular basis and relies extensively on the network of graduates to ensure his clients achieve the greatest results in their cases.

Mr. Schiffer formed The Schiffer Firm, LLC upon his return from the college.  The Schiffer Firm, LLC continues to represent the victims and accused in cases involving Domestic Violence, both in Civil and Criminal arenas.  Mr. Schiffer is regarded as one of Georgia’s leading authorities on Domestic Violence issues and dedicates much of his pro bono efforts to this area.

In 2011 Mr. Schiffer and Mr. Chanco formed ChancoSchiffer P.C. as a new paradigm in Legal Services.

Mr. Schiffer is married to a successful financial executive and lives in Buckhead with his daughter and Chihuahuas.  A supporter of various social and political organizations, he enjoys fishing, gardening, theater, target shooting and politics.

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Douglas Chanco

Douglas Chanco is admitted to the practice of law in both Georgia and New York.  He has also been admitted to practice before the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court.  He founded The Law Offices of Douglas B. Chanco, LLC in 2010 and was an incorporator of ChancoSchiffer, P.C. in 2011.  Prior to this, Mr. Chanco worked at a law firm were he rose to become the senior associate attorney specializing in litigation work including: criminal defense, DUI defense, civil litigation, personal injury, and divorce matters.  Attorney Chanco began his legal career by serving as an assistant solicitor general for the Fulton County State Court in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.  In this position, Attorney Chanco tried and successfully prosecuted numerous criminal cases including DUI.

During law school, Attorney Chanco worked as a certified legal intern for The Office of the Public Defender for the city of Jacksonville, Florida, where he participated in the defense of indigent individuals charged with major felonies and drug crimes.

Attorney Chanco is certified by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as an instructor for standardized field sobriety testing.  This training, which is identical to the education police officers receive, allows him to identify improperly administered field sobriety tests in your Georgia DUI case.  Furthermore, Attorney Chanco has training as a drug recognition expert.  He is one of only a few attorneys in the area that knows how to defend cases dealing with prescription drugs and illegal drugs, including marijuana.

Attorney Chanco is the author of the text, “Defense of Your Georgia DUI Case: What to Know, What to Do.”

Attorney Chanco graduated from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, with a Bachelors of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice in merely two and a half years time. He received his Juris Doctor from Florida Coastal School of Law, in Jacksonville, Florida, and was selected as a Dean’s Scholar twice.

Attorney Chanco has been an active member of his community both as a mock trial team coach for the Georgia Bar Association’s High School Mock Trial program and also achieving the rank of Eagle Scout while a member of the Boy Scouts of America.

Attorney Chanco and his wife hail from Central Florida and proudly call North Georgia home.  In his spare time, Attorney Chanco is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys the many art, cultural, and recreational opportunities available in North Georgia.

Areas of Practice:

• Criminal Law
• DUI/DWI
• Civil Litigation

Litigation Percentage:

90% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:

• Georgia, 2006
• New York, 2012
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia

Education:

Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, Florida
J.D.
Honors: Dean’s Scholar

The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
B.S.
Major: Criminology and Criminal Justice

Professional Associations and Memberships:

National College of DUI Defense Attorneys

Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Association for Justice

Georgia Trial Lawyers Association

Forsyth County Criminal Defense Bar- Past President

Publications:

Defense of Your Georgia DUI Case: What to Know, What to Do.

To reach ChancoSchiffer call 404-842-0909 today!